We would like to have more sympathy, Mr. Hosp, but I’m afraid this was simply a case of poor personal marketing. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, sir.

Few aspiration minded donors impressed us more than one Donald H. Gips, though. As a vice president for Level 3 Communications in Colorado, Don bundled up something in excess of one-half million dollars for Team Obama. In exchange, his company received millions of dollars in taxpayer funds as part of the stimulus program. But was that enough? Perish the thought. Mr. Gips first obtained a job with the administration, not having to perform actual work on behalf of the public, but as the person assigned to line up jobs for the rest of the donors waiting to receive positions. Such a task can chafe on a man’s dedication after a time, though, so it will come as little surprise that he later traded up to become our nation’s Ambassador to South Africa.

By this point, gentle readers, the deluge of information has doubtless left you with a sour taste on your collective tongues. These types of revelations are no doubt surprising. (Much in the same way that that one is surprised to find bird excrement on their car after parking under a tree or some power lines.) The very idea that powerful, lucrative positions in our own federal government could be purchased for merely the gross coinage of American dollars is surely enough to give one the vapors.

But if a piddling amount of cash which could barely finance one of Newt Gingrich’s cruises to the Greek Isles can land positions like these, surely some next century thinking could advance the process to more productive realms. The oil industry is still wringing their collective hands over the fact that they can’t produce any product in our territorial waters. Have they considered simply loading up one of those oil tanker trucks with Benjamins and backing it up to Robert Gibbs’ office in Chicago? There seems more than a middling chance that drilling permits would soon be falling like cherry blossom petals on the National Mall in May.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is apparently so hard up for funding that they’re selling guns to Mexican drug cartels. How much could a couple thousand assault rifles cost? For that price the NRA could probably land two more Supreme Court seats by the end of Obama’s first term.

We live in a free market society here, folks. The Obama administration has embraced this concept in full-throated glory. It’s time for the rest of us to catch up with this new paradigm or be left forever struggling behind the curve.

Speaking of which, I’d been meaning to speak to the editors here about a raise. Something in the range of nine figures should do it.

If by awesome, you mean he’s been successful at: 1. Destroying the U.S. economy (that includes high unemployment, crashing the housing market, rewarding failure in the auto industry, & letting crooked bankers, insurance companies and Wall St financiers off the hook for corruption & criminal acts); 2. Exacerbating race relations by engaging in flagrant racial favoritism at DOJ et al; and 3. Mishandling foreign military action (we should be out of Pakistan now, and he himself promised we’d be out of Iraq by now, not to mention his complete mishandling of Libya), then yes, he’s awesome.

So that means that given the press secretary’s thoughts on this, that every position is filled by the most qualified of people, that all the qualified(intelligent) people in this Country happen to also be the richest people in the country. he he he only if that were true. I mean if they are really trying to sell us on that thought..hahaha I’m sorry just can not stop giggling why not just say it this is how popitics are played its no different than any other President oh but wait this one campaigned on the hope and change ticket well just say the hope and change ticket was shovel ready he he he you know the shovel we need to dig our way out of the BS…problem is the Republicans will do the same thing politicians are just plain in debt to whomever helps get them in office..so lets find a non politician to be our President, I mean we do not have to look far..Herman ain, Ill bet he did not have to give anyone a special spot on his staff for his promotions…just sayin….

“Alabama attorney Ted Hosp also raised $200,000 for the Obamas, but wound up not being appointed to any type of government position.”

Teddy Boy’s lucky he had that “attorney thing” to fall back on. In the eyes of elites like “the Obamas,” folks from the Deep South lead the pack in being just plain dumb & barely have the right to exist, nevermind a position in Bammy’s “Court.”

Bla bla bla. No one on this planet gives something for nothing. Get real.

It’s what you get when campaigns are privately funded. If the police was privately funded, they too would serve their donors more than normal people that don’t fund them (Go to turkey if you wanna see how this works. It’s not bad actually). This is how you CHOSE to have your administration, when you have privately funded campaigns. Stop whining about it.

The equation is simple: The politician with the most campaign money wins. And the politician who gives most benefits to his campaign donors gets the most campaign money. And it’s not even illegal so exactly what is the problem?

If you want to have politicians who serve the public and only the public then only the public should fund campaigns. It’s a really simple choice. And the choice the people of the USA has made is to have private donors fund campaigns.

I cannot wait to see President Obama leaving the White House for one last time so we can do away with this “czar” entitlement program. The feeling should be reminescent of how I felt when Jimmy Carter left. Nice guy – but a terrible president.

Didn’t Mr. Obama sign a pledge to limit his campaign funds, and then renege shortly after Mr. Axelrod throttled him? Or, did I just imagine it?

If I smile and say pleasant sounding platitudes to my neighbors while also working behind their backs to raise their living costs and confiscate more of their paychecks, I’n not really nice. I’m a deceiver masking my real intentions from my neighbors.

WHAT A CROCK!! How does anyone really know who is giving what to sleep at the White House (which is an impliedly racist moniker, but more on that later)? And what’s so bad about that? Oliver North gave all kinds of campaign money to reagan so he could lead up the Contra affair. The reality is that President Obama gets at least, according to my calculations, 99.6% of his campaign contributions from individual working people. To arrive at that figure I interviewed some of the people who work at the charitys and events I attend/organize, and I asked: “It’s true that you make political donations to Mr. Obama, right?” And the answer is always, “yes, I do.” (it’s not 100% because one man, a Mexican server I think, said that he liked Mike Huckabee…yuck!). That’s the reality, so stop trying to sully the President with lies about money, and bedrooms, and stuff like that. It just reveals you all as the racist maroons you are!

What are you talking about? If you’re going to post, invest a little effort into keeping on topic. That’s a neocon strategy isn’t it? Get peoples attention off whatever lie/evil you guys are perpetrating? Maroon……….

oh, i see. when lib’s get tired of defending mr. transparency, they just start with the racist stuff and that covers it all. everything that comes out of these enablers mouths is about race; however, everybody but their side is racist? yeah, works for me. wait a minute. i’m white AND from the deep South, so i am a racist by default? o.k.

wonder will these poor affirmative action perpetual victims spray paint the walls on their way out of the white house? who would be surprised? hope somebody (not democrat) counted the silverware.

You can put lipstick on a pig and its still a pig so says Obama…..Well for
one i would like to have some of that lipstick in the oval office calling the
shots right now, and i do believe we would be just a little beyond the curve
that is heading down the path that a clueless boy wonder has so defined for
the unwashed people who are no where near his statue of being the incrowd….